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Reader Experiences With Bad Medical & Finance Models
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Reader Experiences With Bad Medical & Finance Models

Anons emails about experience with bad modeling. These read very like posts you see here daily. Lightly edited to remove personal information, with links by me. The post about the…
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Class 38: Truly Random & Information Complexity
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Class 38: Truly Random & Information Complexity

There is nothing magical or mystical about simulations, and "randomness" has nothing to do with any of them. Let's remove the unrealistic thinking from simulations by understanding them for what…
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The Reason Why Much Science Is Broken: Every Use Of P-Values Is A Logical Fallacy
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The Reason Why Much Science Is Broken: Every Use Of P-Values Is A Logical Fallacy

I made this picture for my talk at the first ever public Broken Science event (videos coming soon): Everybody has heard the saying "correlation doesn't imply causation." Taken loosely, it…
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What The Law Of Large Numbers Really Means
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What The Law Of Large Numbers Really Means

JJ Couey, who hosts a podcast well known to some of you, and friend of the Broken Science Initiative, asked me about the so-called Law of Large Numbers. Jay wonders…
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Scientists Claim Keeping Men From Girls Locker Rooms Causes Men To Commit Suicide
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Scientists Claim Keeping Men From Girls Locker Rooms Causes Men To Commit Suicide

Our latest misuse of statistics producing midwit science is found in the peer-reviewed paper "State-level anti-transgender laws increase past-year suicide attempts among transgender and non-binary young people in the USA"…
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Scientists Induce Apoplexy (In Me) In Attempting To Tie Stroke To “Climate Change”
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Scientists Induce Apoplexy (In Me) In Attempting To Tie Stroke To “Climate Change”

In my free and it-don't-cost-nuthin' class notes Breaking the Law of Averages (pdf), I have a homework question which goes something like this: Explain why, no matter the goodness of…
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Solved: The Best Bayesian Prior To Use In Every Situation
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Solved: The Best Bayesian Prior To Use In Every Situation

Kevin Gray is back with another question, this time about priors. His last led to the post "Was Fisher Wrong? Whether Or Not Statistical Models Are Needed." (The answer was…
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How To Generate Scientific Over-Certainty
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How To Generate Scientific Over-Certainty

It's easy to sound more certain than the evidence warrants, especially when using classical parameter-based statistical methods. I'll show you how. I'll give you the procedure first, then work through…
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